For years, fish farmers have been using AI to identify individual fish in their ponds to help manage the health of stocks. Now that same tech is being built into Bird Buddy, an AI bird feeder that helps users to identify individual birds and even give them names. Connected tech can send notifications when a specific bird returns to the feeder....
Pedro Markun is getting a lot of attention in Brazilian politics with his campaign for São Paulo City Council that claims that a vote for him is a vote for him and his AI partner. This hybrid model integrates artificial intelligence named Lex that will purportedly be better than a human at optimizing city operations, improving public transport...
Customer service workers are some of the most threatened by AI automation, and a lot of corporate leaders are more than happy to let those workers lose their jobs. But so far, most people hate AI customer service. It's not hard to understand. When customers call in, they want help. And if the AI is not helpful, it is seen as detrimental. The...
It's a common situation: you ask a retail worker a non-standard question and the worker has to call the manager to find out. Now at stores around the world, including Target stores in the USA, chatbots are taking over for managers so that, instead of asking a manager, retail workers get help from AI. Accessible via handheld devices, the chatbot...
Over two thousand dogs have been cloned since 2005. Companies like ViaGen Pets & Equine report increasing demand for their services, with the firm cloning "more and more pets every year" since it started its pet cloning operations in 2015. The trend is also fueled by high-profile cases, such as celebrities like Barbra Streisand and Simon...
Stock photographers who survived the disruptive advent of digital cameras and online sales are bracing themselves for the next great tech shock: generative AI. Some are predicting the worst. “The stock photography industry is going away,” said Connecticut-based photographer Tony Northrup. “AI is ending it for the remaining photographers who...
A startup called Forward is introducing the CarePod, which it calls 'the world's first AI doctor's office.' CarePods offer AI-powered diagnostic tools for preventative care and monitoring in a self-service, standalone unit. Patients step inside, check in with an app and get access to vital sign measurements, biometric body scans and blood...
A senior OpenAI employee opened a veritable can of worms this week when she claimed that the latest version of ChatGPT, which now has voice recognition capabilities, is akin to talking with a human therapist. "Just had a quite emotional, personal conversation [with] ChatGPT in voice mode, talking about stress [and] work-life balance," Lilian...
Autonomous carmaker Cruise just started beta testing its robotaxis in Houston and it's not an inspiring start. The newly rolled-out self-driving vehicles caused a traffic jam when three of the cars slowed to a stop at an intersection, blocking all other vehicles from passing through while struggling to make sense of a four-way red light. That...
A new artificial intelligence algorithm has detected, for the first time ever, a killer asteroid slated to fly by Earth — and it won't be the last. Known as HelioLinc3D, the algorithm — created specifically for the still-under-construction Vera Rubin Observatory in Northern Chile — has already identified one "potentially hazardous asteroid" or...
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